(AP) A state legislator said black people "should get over" slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize "for killing Christ," drawing denunciations Tuesday from stunned colleagues.

Del. Frank D. Hargrove, 79, made his remarks in opposition to a measure that would apologize on the state's behalf to the descendants of slaves.

In an interview published Tuesday in The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Hargrove said slavery ended nearly 140 years ago with the Civil War and added that "our black citizens should get over it."

The newspaper also quoted him as saying, "are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"

Without slavery, a low rent moron like you would have been lucky to leave the farm to find a pig-ugly bride. White skin privledge has given you everything in your miserable life, You sit in the House of Delegates because black people were sent to the back of the bus. You even closed the public schools rather than intergrate them. For five years, you stole childrens futures.